my BEFSR41 router died so...

NITROFiST · Post by **NITROFiST** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:43 am

I bought a WRT54GL off a buddy its flashed with Tomato Version 1.27

so i have a quick question everything runs perfectly fine
i must say i'm impressed with the third party firmwares out there
for this router my question is when i go under

Advanced ----- Routing-----Miscellaneous----- Gateway is selected by default theres an option in the box to change it to Router should i change this to router or leave it alone?

also i dont really need the wireless thats built in since i have a
Dual-Band Wireless A+G Access Point - WAP55AG

will this router work fine with this once i disable the wireless on the WRT54GL
or will there be some compatibility problems?

i use it for my wireless-A devices such as a few laptops and the xbox 360

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:02 am

For your home network you want to leave it to "gateway" mode, that's the more common use for routers if they are your gateway to the internet.

The "router" mode..that's used when you're building large networks with different subnets, branches, etc.

You can disable the wireless, although you may find the wireless on this works better than your old AP.

Or you can speed up your network....leave the old AP running A mode for your older gear, and setup the GL with a G network for your PCs.

NITROFiST · Post by **NITROFiST** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:18 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:For your home network you want to leave it to "gateway" mode, that's the more common use for routers if they are your gateway to the internet.

The "router" mode..that's used when you're building large networks with different subnets, branches, etc.

You can disable the wireless, although you may find the wireless on this works better than your old AP.

Or you can speed up your network....leave the old AP running A mode for your older gear, and setup the GL with a G network for your PCs.

ok i did what you recomended everything works fine as far
as connecting to the net thanks oldcat

the only thing i cant seem to figure out now is why my network adapter
says DNS Server 192.168.1.1

when it should display my DNS and also why i can't seem to get my nat off moderate for my xbox 360 over wireless when i've added the correct IP and ports in tomatos interface

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:20 pm

If I remember XBox with tomato, had to open/forward the 2x ports for XBox, and manually set the MTU. Giving the XBox a static LAN of course.
• UDP 88
• UDP 3074
• TCP 3074

So you'll want your XBox to be on a static IP...easily done in DHCP reservations on the router.
MTU on the router to be set to 1384

You can set your DNS over ride so DHCP hands out the DNS servers of your choice, such as 208.67.222.222 and .220.220 for OpenDNS. Else by default the Tomato just does DNS forwarding itself (I prefer the DNS over ride)

NITROFiST · Post by **NITROFiST** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:40 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:If I remember XBox with tomato, had to open/forward the 2x ports for XBox, and manually set the MTU. Giving the XBox a static LAN of course.
• UDP 88
• UDP 3074
• TCP 3074

So you'll want your XBox to be on a static IP...easily done in DHCP reservations on the router.
MTU on the router to be set to 1384

You can set your DNS over ride so DHCP hands out the DNS servers of your choice, such as 208.67.222.222 and .220.220 for OpenDNS. Else by default the Tomato just does DNS forwarding itself (I prefer the DNS over ride)

EDIT: ok i got everything sorted out with openDNS now my DNS is updated
however it still displays DNS server 192.168.1.1 under my network adapters
am I supposed to manually change all of thease on the network to
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

and NAT still refuses to get off of moderate if i just plug a cable directly into the xbox

360 and test the connection its an openNAT but
over wireless its moderate or strict

don't know if it matters but WINS Server used to have an IP under my network adapter also so is there something else i need too do because now its blank...

man i really hate networking....

thx again for everything oldcat happy new year man!!!!!

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:32 pm

change the dns server in the router and leave the pc's as they are, the router will do the lookup and the pc's will get it from the router

NITROFiST · Post by **NITROFiST** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:58 am

morbidpete wrote:change the dns server in the router and leave the pc's as they are, the router will do the lookup and the pc's will get it from the router

ok cool thanks pete and cat you been a big help